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  • ReadyTalk Berkeley site - "UC Berkeley has chosen ReadyTalk as a preferred provider of web and audio conferencing."

The executive summary is that to be a presenter under Mac OS X, it is best to use Safari. To be a presenter, one person must log in as Chairperson

  1. Go to http://www.readytalk.com or use the URL associated with your account.
  2. Log in
  3. Press "Open Meeting Controls". Part of the presenter process is that a Java applet is downloaded. If you are on a Mac, use Safari, not Firefox.
  4. The Meeting Controls applet will hopefully download. After it starts, hit the "Start Meeting" Button.
  5. Start up the phone call separate.

If you are not presenting, then basically any browser will work.

Issues

Mac

  • I can't get this to work under Firefox?
    • On 11/29/2012, ReadyTalk support said Under Mac OS X, promoting to co-presenter does not work if the user to be promoted is under Firefox. They are working on this.
    • Lotus Sametime had a similar issue where it would not install for Firefox, but did install for Safari.
  • Edward was unable be co-presenter under Safari.
    • Under Safari, the text in the about what to click on was different than what the Safari displays.
    • Under Firefox, there is no "Inactive Plug-in ->" text":

After that, I got Thu Nov 29 11:30:47 MST 2012 - Error: 500

I contacted support and they suggested that for Safari, go to http://www.java.com and install Java. Apparently there was an recent update that caused problems.

In addition, they said that Under Mac OS X, promoting to co-presenter does not work if the user to be promoted is under Firefox

  • Why do I have to download the app each time?
  • ReadyTalk User Guide: "Mac users cannot share individual applications, only their entire desktop"
  • ReadyTalk allows presenters to upload their presentation.
    • The conversion process hung for a 9Mb .pptx presentation. I saved it as a reduced size ppt (92dpi) and the conversion was much faster.
    • PDF and Keynote are not supported as uploads.

Multiple windows

A Windows user was displaying PowerPoint on two screens. The user was promoted to co-promoter. How do we share just the display screen?

I contacted support at ReadyTalk:

"The default screen (the one with the Start menu) will be the default screen for participants"

"There is not a way to pick which screen displays"

"Is there a way he can swap the PPT screens?"

See Run a presentation on two monitors

ReadyTalk Support Chat

  • I can't copy and paste from the Chat dialog.

Ricoh Printer

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